Tessa Hofmann
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Tessa Hofmann is a scholar of Armenian studies and sociology[1], PhD, Professor of Free University of Berlin. She studied at the Department of Slavonic Languages and Literature, as well as Armenian studies and sociology at the Free University of Berlin.
Hofmann is an author of 13 books on Armenian history and culture, included the "Persecution, Expulsion and Annihilation of the Christian population in the Ottoman Empire, 1912-22" research.
Hofmann is a member of the International Society for Threatened Peoples. She is chairperson of the reorganized Working Group “Affirmation” – Against Genocide, for Reconciliation. She is an active participant in the international initiative “Speaking with one voice!” that combines Armenian, Assyrian/Aramean and Greek efforts for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
[edit] Publications
- Lecture in Japan at the "Comparative Genocide Studies", University of Tokyo, 27 March 2004 - "Annihilation, Impunity, Denial: The Case Study of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire (1915/16) and Genocide Research in Comparison"
- "Armenians in Turkey today: a critical assessment of the situation of the Armenian minority in the Turkish Republic". Brussels, 2002.
